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Danforth reports that Abigail and Mercy vanished from Salem after robbing him.
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Elizabeth tells Proctor that almost one hundred people have confessed to witchcraft.
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Danforth is excited that Proctor agreed to witchcraft.
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Danforth reads the names of the condemned out loud and asks if he ever saw any of them with the devil. Proctor again replies in the negative.
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Proctor refuses to allow him to nail the paper with his name on the church door and, after arguing with the magistrates, tears the confession in two and renounces it.
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Not long afterward, Parris is voted out of office. He leaves Salem, never to be heard from again. Rumors have it that Abigail became a prostitute in Boston